TRIQUINT OPTOELECTRONICS ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF 40km and 80km XFP TRANSCEIVERS

August 31, 2004 – TriQuint Optoelectronics, a leader in active optical component and module technology, announced the availability of XFP MSA compliant 10Gb/s transceivers for SONET/SDH 40km (short haul) and 80km (long haul), as well as 10 Gigabit Ethernet 40km (extended reach) applications. These new transceivers offer customers superior performance by utilizing TriQuint’s proven EML optical engines. The new modules will debut at the 30th Annual European Conference & Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC) in Stockholm, Sweden, September 6-8.

The 10Gb/s XFP transceivers utilize TriQuint’s QubeTM optical engines, which are form-factor ‘a(chǎn)gnostic’ and can be used in any small form factor 2.5Gb/s and 10Gb/s pluggable transceiver, as well as small form factor 300-pin transponders. The new transceivers are designed for use in network transmission systems and operate at SONET OC-192 standard and FEC rates, while for SDH, they operate at STM-64 standard and FEC rates, according to the ITU-T G.959.1 and G.691 standards. For high-speed data communications, the transceivers can operate at both 10G Ethernet rate and 10G Fibre Channel rate according to the IEEE 802.3ae standards.